Manufacture of covered frame-pieces for chairs and other articles.



H B. MORRJSA MANUFACTURE OF COVERED FRAME PIECES HJR CHAIRS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILEEJ lULY 3 I916.

IQUKWYQD Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

HAROLD B. MORRIS, OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA.

MANUFACTURE OF COVERED FRAME-PIECES FOR CHAIRS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

Original application fi1ed June 24, 1915, Serial No. 36,036. Divided and. this application filed July 3, 1916. Serial No. 107,446.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, I-IARoLD B. MORRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Glendale, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manu facture of Covered Frame-Pieces for Chairs and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This application is a division of my former application No. 36,036, filed June 24L, 1915. Said application shows, describes and claims certain improvements in the manufacture of chairs and other similar articles of furniture in which the frame of the chair or other article is covered with ratan, flag, grass, paper, or the like. As stated in said application it has heretofore been the practice to first construct the chair frame complete and then cover it by winding some parts of the frame with a covering material and covering other parts, such as the seat, back and arms, by interweaving the mate -rial with different parts of the skeleton frame and one of the improvements described in my prior application consists in covering the several pieces of the chair in an improved way before they are assembled. As described in said application the legs, rungs, and similar parts of the chair are wound with the covering material before they are joined with the other parts, while the seat, back and arms are covered with the material in fabric form which may be machine-made and securely fastened in place on the seat, back and arm frames in a novel way. This subject-matter is claimed in my former application.

The present application relates to a novel method of covering and bending certain parts of the frame preparatory to their being assembled.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a well known form of porch chair, some parts being broken away in order to illustrate certain details of construction. Fig. 2 illustrates the steps of covering, bending and joining certain parts of the skeleton chair frame. Fig. 3 is a detail View in perspective showing how parts of the frame are covered by winding the covering material thereon and how these parts are joined. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing parts of the frame covered and joined.

' The chair shown in Fig. 1 comprises a seat A, back B, arms C, legs D, rockers E, and rungs e. The frame pieces of the chair are preferably all made of wood, but other materials such as are commonly used in the construction of chairs, may be employed whereever suitable.

The seat frame is. made and covered separately. Each hind leg and one vertical frame piece 6 of the back are made of one piece of material and each front leg and each front part of an arm frame are likewise so made. The rungs and braces are made separately and joined in the manner indicated.

Fig. 1 shows the various parts assembled and covered, but as will be presently explained the various pieces are for the most part covered before being assembled.

The manner in which'the legs, rungs and braces are covered and joined is indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 1. In the case of rungs and pieces which need no bending, the covering is wound on said parts by machinery. They are first preferably covered with glue or other suitable adhesive and placed in a lathe or other suitable machine by which they may be rotated while the covering material is fed to them. In the case of the frame parts which are bent or curved, such as the legs, back, arms and arm frames, I first steam the piece or otherwise heat and soften it, then cover it with glue or similar adhesive, then apply the covering in the manner above described and then bend it.

In Fig. 2, 1 indicates a piece of wood suitable to form one of the frame pieces above described, 2 indicates how this piece is covered after the piece has been steamed or otherwise softened; 3 shows how it is bent; 1 indicates how a socket is formed in the bent and covered piece; and 5 shows how the bent and covered piece is joined to another covcred piece. It will thus be observed that in some instances the piece of wood is not covered from end to end but uncovered parts are left in order to secure said pieces in properly formed sockets. In this way parts of a chair frame may be covered in a winding machine instead of being hand-wound and much time and cost of labor is saved.

My claim in the present case is confined to the method of bending a covered frame piece after it is covered, but I have indicated in the drawings the frame of a chair and certain parts thereof'in order to illustrate how the covered and bent frame pieces may covering material on the piece thus treated be assembled. and then bending the covered piece to suit- Reference is made to my former applicaable shape. tion No. 36,036 for further particulars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 5 I claim as my invention: subscribed my name.

The inethod herein described of prepar- HAROLD B MORRIS. mg a frame plece of a chalr or other article,

Which'consists in softening a piece of Wood WVitnesses: of suitable shape, then covering said piece CALVIN VVI-IITING,

10 While still soft With hot glue, then inding N. P. NANCY.

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Washington, D. G. 

